Sliver Overlord: Slivers Gone Wild

Commander / EDH Combo Hive Mind Infinite Combo Sliver

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Land (36)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forest
• 1x Gemstone Mine
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Secluded Courtyard
• 1x Sliver Hive
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Wipe (2)

• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Raise the Palisade

Slivers (26)

• 1x Amoeboid Changeling
• 1x Basal Sliver
• 1x Bonescythe Sliver
• 1x Brood Sliver
• 1x Cloudshredder Sliver
• 1x Crystalline Sliver
• 1x Galerider Sliver
• 1x Gemhide Sliver
• 1x Harmonic Sliver
• 1x Hatchery Sliver
• 1x Heart Sliver
• 1x Hibernation Sliver
• 1x Lavabelly Sliver
• 1x Manaweft Sliver
• 1x Necrotic Sliver
• 1x Quick Sliver
• 1x Regal Sliver
• 1x Sentinel Sliver
• 1x Shifting Sliver
• 1x Sliver Gravemother
• 1x Sliver Hivelord
• 1x Sliver Legion
• 1x Sliver Queen
• 1x Taunting Sliver
• 1x The First Sliver
• 1x Venom Sliver

Removal (7)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Generous Gift
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Stroke of Midnight
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Tutor (4)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Commander (1)

Cost Reduction & Ramp (10)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Herald's Horn
• 1x Mana Echoes
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Three Visits

No (8)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Deflecting Swat
• 1x Dovin's Veto
• 1x Flawless Maneuver
• 1x Negate
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Teferi's Protection

Hive Tools (6)

• 1x Kindred Discovery
• 1x Mirri's Guile
• 1x Patriarch's Bidding
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Training Grounds

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Slivers! Lots of them! With the announcement of the M14 slivers I decided it was time to dig out the slippery bastards and build a commander deck.

The plan is not complicated - Varied mana base & support spells in order to cast Sliver Overlord. Sliver tutor party ensues. Bathing in the tears of your opponents also ensues.

Choose Your Own Adventure

So you've made the conscious decision to brew a sliver deck...

Step 1: A preemptive apology to your friends is a good idea.
Step 2: Choose your filthy sliver general.

Wizards have graciously bestowed the gift of 6 viable 5 colour sliver legends to choose from, catering to all different styles of play:

Sliver Gravemother: The newest sliver legend on the block, rise from your sliver grave and get back out there for your triumphant encore.

Sliver Hivelord: If resilience is what you're after, reliably granting your swarm indestructibility is pretty appealing.

Sliver Legion: Do you want huge slivers? Well you can have huge slivers.

Sliver Overlord: This tends to be the go to choice due to the sheer utility Overlord enables.

Sliver Queen: The legend that started it all. If you have a penchant for infinite combos, Queen is the no-brainer.

The First Sliver: Just a big fat value engine that will quickly spiral out of control if left unchecked.

If you want your deck to be hyper-competitive, you should choose Queen. Because she enables so many busted, game ending combos, it just makes sense to have her ready and waiting in the command zone for when you're ready to hit the 'I win' button. Stack your deck full of counterspells, ramp and tutors and bide your time until you have your combo pieces assembled. Indisputably powerful, but that style of play certainly isn't for everyone. Also, if by chance you don't draw into your tutors or combo pieces, you just might find yourself top decking with nothing to do except spit out little baby slivers and that is the primary reason I prefer Overlord. Yes, Overlord is clunky & slow. Yes, it's absolutely terrible if someone is able to Control Magic Overlord (Homeward Path is an auto-include here - trust me, I learned the hard way)...But he's just so much fun! He also ensures that you're able to do something every turn, usually something really evil.

And then you have the other 4 legends (Gravemother, Hivelord, Legion & The First). They're definitely strong, but IMHO they're much better suited as one of the 99. The beautiful thing about building a 5 colour sliver deck is that you could feasibly try out all 6 as the general - the deck I've assembled could quite happily interchange Overlord & Queen as the swarm leader. Hell, if you're feeling bold one night, lay all 6 of them on the table and let your playgroup choose what you play. WILDNESS!!

I swear to god I'll pistol whip the next guy who says "shenanigans"

Slivers, shenanigans & you

Oh boy, where to even begin. Slivers are hated because they're so synergistic - if you threw 30 random slivers together in a deck with little to no thought it would still be formidable. The moment you start honing the sliver choices, the combos start to appear by default. Here's a few of the silly things the slivers in this deck are capable of...

As previously mentioned, Sliver Queen really allows you to unleash hell. Let's start by talking about a few of the more ridiculous things you can do with our Queen:

Sliver Queen + Blur Sliver/Heart Sliver + Gemhide Sliver/Manaweft Sliver + Basal Sliver = {INFINITY} mana. What do we do with all that mana you ask? Well if Overlord is on the table you can play every sliver in your deck for the win.

Sliver Queen + Basal Sliver + Training Grounds = {INFINITY} slivers. Game over if you have a haste enabler or Lavabelly Sliver in play.

Sliver Queen + Mana Echoes = {INFINITY} slivers.

So yeah. Sliver Queen. Pretty crazy. Let's move on to our commander of choice, the one and only Sliver Overlord! Every sliver in the deck serves a specific purpose so why not have a general that can tutor up your weapon of choice? On top of that, Overlord's secondary ability allows for some sneaky stuff:

Sliver Overlord + Amoeboid Changeling: Turn your opponent's creature into an honorary sliver and invite him over to the swarm.

If you're unable to assemble any of the above, you can always resort to winning the old fashioned way via sliver beat down (Sliver Legion + Shifting Sliver come to mind). Because the sliver threats are big & scary, you'll need to come prepared with some answers to avoid anyone messing with your sliver agenda - it's always a good idea to run a healthy suite of counterspells, ramp, recursion, removal & tutors to ensure maximum resiliency.

As you can see, quite the abundance of shenanigans. Slivers are loathed for a reason, perhaps the above has shed some light as to why.

Top Ranked	Achieved #60 position overall 4 years ago Achieved #37 position in Commander / EDH 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Five Color 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Sliver 4 years ago
Date added	10 years
Last updated	7 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 54 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.70
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, Elephant 3-3 G, Human 1/1 W, Sliver 1/1 C, The Monarch
Folders	Commander / EDH, EDH Ideas , Future deck ideas, Slivers, edh, 5-Color (Sliver Overlord), Decks I'm looking into, slivers, EDH, crzy sauce